Discovery Ventures

Total investments

13

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.48

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsFood and BeverageBusiness IntelligenceIntelligent SystemsElectronicsOpen SourceWeb Development

Summary

Discovery Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Vancouver. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Discovery Ventures, startups are often financed by Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, Sofinnova Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Altos Ventures, Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, Sofinnova Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM Ventures, Partech.

Opposing the other organizations, this Discovery Ventures works on 28 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Luna Information Systems, Valchemy, TimesTen. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Analytics. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.48
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Financial Services (3)
  • Electronics (2)
  • Intelligent Systems (2)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • France (1)
  • India (1)
  • Germany (4)
Peak activity year
1999

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.69

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GOURMEY 05 Oct 2022 Food and Beverage, Life Science Early Stage Venture 56M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Nishan Systems 24 May 1999 Internet, Intelligent Systems, Electronics Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Jose

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